Example sentences of "be leading to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such activities , however , especially where wildlife habitats and wildscapes are concerned , often have adverse and environmentally degrading consequences which , in some instances , are leading to the destruction of the very resource that attracts the visitors . |
| 2 | Current advances in graptolite biostratigraphy are leading to the recognition of further subdivisions in the Ordovician and Silurian which provide an accurate calibration for parallel work on acritarchs and chitinozoa . |
| 3 | Current advances in knowledge of graptolite morphology and distribution are leading to the recognition of further subdivisions in the Ordovician and the Silurian . |
| 4 | Once more , general policies which are leading to the residualization of local authority housing are being reinforced by demographic trends . |
| 5 | In the normally austere Hereford Breed , Journal , the owners of the Llandinabo herd claim foreign bulls are leading to the disintegration of the British Hereford by introducing alien blood . |
| 6 | crises as seen to be leading to the collapse of the capitalist system . |
| 7 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 8 | The report suggested that sulphur dioxide emissions , mainly from industry and power stations , but also volcanoes , most notably Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines , were leading to the formation of a thin film of sulphate particles in the atmosphere , which were reflecting some sunlight . |
| 9 | Radioactive and toxic pollution in the oceans off northern Russia is leading to the deaths of thousands of seals from cancer , according to Russian scientists . |
| 10 | The search for Carol Clark 's killer is leading to the re-examination of the death of prostitute Diane McInally in Glasgow two years ago . |
| 11 | He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass . |
| 12 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 13 | Serge Mallet ( 1969 ) , writing in the context of developments in political theory in France , and hence particularly concerned with issues of class consciousness and conflict , took a view directly contrary to Woodward , arguing that new technology was leading to the development of new forms of class conflict that would threaten fundamentally the stability of the existing structure of the capitalist enterprise . |
| 14 | In addition , it was suggested that the inability of certain non-computing services industry organisations to attract sufficiently qualified staff to run their DP departments was leading to the operation of that whole department being contracted out . |
| 15 | The early experience of the polytechnics and colleges has not been encouraging , with complaints from the Directors of Polytechnics that fierce competition was leading to the under-funding of courses and falling standards ; they also claimed that the Polytechnic and Colleges Funding Council was favouring diploma courses over degree work . |
| 16 | Campaign co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth , Andrew Lees , said the report confirmed that the government 's failure to control intensive farming practices was leading to the destruction of the Norfolk Broads . |
| 17 | The issue had been brought into focus last September , when GATT condemned a US ban on the import from Mexico of drift-netted tuna , imposed on the grounds that it was leading to the deaths of dolphins and other marine mammals . |
| 18 | He disputed claims by some doctors that fundholding was leading to the establishment of a two-tier service and added : ‘ The achievements of pioneering fundholders among you have been impressive . |